Dissertations / Theses: 'Work with Projects'

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Khalid, Rameez. "Progress in Transferable Work-load Projects : Development of a Robust Method for the Evaluation and Forecasting of Distributed Progress." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009INPT051G/document.

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Mesurer l'avancement de gros projets est toujours difficile car la charge de travail est partagée entre les départements d'une entreprise ou même entre des entreprises réparties dans le monde. La littérature de niveau recherche sur la gestion des projets a été passée en revue pour découvrir les différentes techniques applicables. Les outils largement utilisés pour prévoir et mesurer l'avancement des projets, comme la méthode de la valeur acquise (Earned Value Analysis), Progress Plot, Milestone and Resource slip charts, Concurrent Engineering, peuvent être utilisés. Le problème étudié est lié à l'industrie pharmaceutique où de nouveaux traitements ou médicaments sont développés, et où l'efficacité d'un traitement médical est testée sur des patients répartis à travers le monde. Beaucoup de variables augmentent la complexité et l'ambiguïté du problème étudié. L'objectif principal est d'analyser l'efficacité d'une solution dans différentes situations au cours du projet, de sorte que la durée soit la plus réduite possible, et que les objectifs soit atteints au moindre coût. Les résultats suggèrent que la relocalisation des patients dans les pays produit de meilleurs résultats en terme d'avancement de projet In large projects measuring progress is always difficult due to the complexities involved, because the realization is shared among departments of a firm or even between firms disseminated all over the world. Project management and operations research literature is reviewed for discovering various techniques applicable. Widely used tools for progress measurement and forecasting, such as Earned Value Analysis, Progress Plot, Milestone and Resource slip charts, concurrent engineering, can be employed. This thesis is based on a problem of pharmaceutical industry where the effectiveness of a certain medical treatment is examined on patients in a number of countries. The number of variables involved increase the complexity of this problem. The main objective is to analyze the effectiveness of a solution in different situations during the project such that a better project duration and a lower cost can be achieved. Our findings suggest that reallocation of patients among countries produces better results in terms of progress

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Lyne, Isaac, Tom R. Franks, and John W. Cusworth. "Projects for regeneration: Making them work." University of Bradford. Department of Development and Economic Studies, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2779.

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Yes The study analyses approaches to the management of two projects within the regeneration portfolio of a large UK metropolitan council. Developing a theoretical framework drawing both from mainstream project methodologies and international development, the study highlights a number of key issues which need to be addressed, including entrepreneurship, participation, stakeholder buy-in, project lifecycles and benefit management. Key lessons emerging from the study include the need to foster entrepreneurship within the controlled environment of the project and the importance of setting programme targets which are appropriately orientated to harness the interdependent nature of benefits of regeneration projects in the public sector. None

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Ho, Ka Lai. "Understanding requirements work in e-science projects." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9965.

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The e-science vision is to create infrastructures to enable faster, better and more collaborative science to be carried out in the 21st Century. The goal is for these infrastructures to allow scientists to collaborate routinely, scaling geographical and disciplinary boundaries; to create ad hoc arrangements datasets, equipment or computational power to solve larger, more complex scientific problems; to federate remote datasets, hence, aiding scientists in data discovery and even data re-use. The work to turn the e-science vision into reality has been the subject of major research programmes in the UK (UK E-Science Programme) and the US (National Science Foundation’s Cyberinfrastructures Programme). Inevitably, e-science technologies and scientific practices will co-evolve as collaborative work becomes more prevalent, and cross-disciplinary work becomes routinised. Thus, the design and development of e-science technologies will play a critical part in the above process; there is a clear need to develop technologies which will accurately reflect end-users’ needs as well as account for the wider social structures of future scientific work. In e-science, there has been an on-going debate about whether new requirements techniques are needed to deal with the ‘unique’ characteristics of e-science projects, and the ambitious aims of e-science software. Some argue that e-science presents sufficiently novel combinations of challenges that new techniques are needed, whilst others argue that e-science practitioners should ‘borrow’ from pre-existing requirements engineering techniques. However, one barrier in settling this question (insomuch as it can be ‘settled’) is that there is currently a lack of empirical data on the requirements work and activities carried out in existing e-science projects. Studying requirements activities in e-science projects by examining the actual problems encountered would yield insights regarding the challenges in working out requirements for e-science technologies, and more generally, better inform the structure of requirements work in future projects. The research in this thesis examines the requirements activities of three UK e-science projects drawn from the astronomy, molecular simulation and translational science disciplines. Detailing the experience of project team members, the research explores issues and challenges encountered over the course of working out requirements for escience technologies. In particular, this research takes a slightly different approach from similar studies, with the unit of analysis being at the project level, reflecting shifts in emphasis on requirements work as projects evolve. Three aspects of requirements work in e-science projects are explored closely. Firstly, the temporal patterns in development work and how requirements activities fitted into such rhythms, phases and trajectories; secondly, the challenges of making a prototyping approach work; thirdly, the challenges of stabilising the ‘missing middle’ – a term to describe the gap between the high-level visionary description of the system from the project proposal, into fine-grained, detailed requirements. Then all three themes are drawn together, in order to make more general observations regarding the challenges of working out requirements for e-science technologies, as well as some observations regarding the shape of requirements work over the course of an e-science project. The thesis concludes that working out requirements for e-science technologies is challenging due to the complexities of supporting multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational work and the novelty of the technology to be developed. Team members have to grapple with multiple domains of knowledge, where there is little pre-existing expertise on how these aspects could be combined. Evidence from the data suggests that multiple strategies are employed to manage this complexity; where the selection of techniques is done on a contingent basis. Thus, one of the major implications of this thesis is to suggest more systematic and explicit capture of ‘lessons learnt’ from developers of previous e-science technologies.

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Hochdorfer, Tobias, and Gudmundur Bjarnason. "Project Overload in Project Based Organizations - Causes, Symptoms and Effects : A study of Project Members and their Projects." Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-162.

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This study investigates the matter of project overload which project members have to face in project based organizations. The thesis is based on 13 interviews with project team members in different project based companies and industries in the countries Sweden, Iceland and Germany. To support the interviews and to gather a broader understanding of the topic an online-questionnaire was provided to 103 project workers and managers in 6 companies in the same countries, of those 103, 47 participated. The result of the online-survey shows, that around 70 percent have ever felt overload with their project work.The guiding research question for this study is: Why does project overload occur, how can it be recognized and how does it influence the project work? The research question has been chosen in order to give a broad understanding of project overload. The causes, symptoms and effects of project overload are analyzed on the basis of the interviews and the online-survey in the consulting, construction, IT and customized high-tech manufacturing industry.The results of the study shows the most important factors why project overload occurs, how it can be recognized by the project members and how it influences important aspects of successful project management like time, budget and quality.

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FERREIRA, DIONISIO CRISTOVAO. "WORK, WOMEN AND AIDS: LIFE PROJECTS, DREAMS AND PAINS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13093@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO Este estudo busca analisar a lógica que rege a inserção de mulheres soropositivas no mercado de trabalho, a partir das experiências das mulheres no grupo de ajuda-mútua Viva a Vida, do Hospital dos Servidores do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Nesse sentido buscou-se compreender como a lógica do capitalismo contemporâneo promove uma interface entre a inserção das mulheres no mercado de trabalho, as relações de gênero e a epidemia de AIDS. O presente texto, portanto, sistematiza-se a partir das categorias trabalho, gênero e AIDS, que subsidiaram uma pesquisa de caráter quanti-qualitativo, privilegiando a história de vida destes sujeitos. Os resultados do estudo evidenciam que a lógica do capital, longe de excluir as mulheres do trabalho apropria-se das especificidades e vulnerabilidades inerentes ao gênero e à AIDS, inserindo-as em um mercado de trabalho informal e precarizado, a partir de necessidades tanto mercantis, quanto individuais. This study searchs to analyze the logic that conducts the insertion of HIV infected women in the work market, from the experiences of the women in the Viva a Vida Group (Alive the Life) , of the Hospital dos Servidores do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Hospital of the Servers of the State of Rio de Janeiro). In this direction one searched to understand as the logic of the contemporary capitalism promotes an interface enters the insertion of the women in the work market, the relations of kind and the epidemic of AIDS. This text, therefore, systemizes from the work, kind and AIDS categories, that had subsidized a research of quanti- qualitative character, privileging the history of life of these citizens. The results of the study evidence that the logic of the capital, regardless excluding the women of the work, assume of the especificities and inherent vulnerabilities to the kind and the AIDS, inserting them in an informal and insufficient work market, from mercantile necessities, how much in such a way individual.

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Ahrens, Steven. "Delinquency and risk factors, rehabilitation and selected early childhood projects." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq26297.pdf.

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Single, Helen M. "Factors influencing women with mental health problems' attendance at work projects." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274945.

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Mair, Andrew John. "Estimating and control of construction projects using cost significant work packages." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335780.

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Lum, Kwok-choi, and 林國才. "Social work practice in the workplace: case studies of four factory social work projects in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248445.

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Karapinar, Akin. "Project Management, Time Management and Motivation for building renovation projects." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.

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This thesis includes a study and research on project management, time management and motivation. Study and research starts with the introduction of management techniques and tools and continues with the case study. Case study is a restoration project time management of Farabi building in Nicosia, North Cyprus. Techniques and tools which learned and researched for project management, time management and motivation adapted on Farabi building restoration project which held in 2017. With that, a new case study created from the scratch by using all of these knowledge with a proper discussion.

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Dunks, Darryle W. "Equipping older adults to perform selected ministry projects." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Vyas, Pratik. "Inter-disciplinary study of team-work during design for social innovation projects." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36229/.

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The rising demand of teamwork during Design for Social Innovation (DfSI) projects has created a need for professional development to be able to work cordially within teams. Traditionally, reflective practices have been considered most effective for the development of professional practice in the field of Design. However, enactive cognitive science points to the practice of Awareness-based Meditative Techniques (AbMT) as an alternate way for such development. Such AbMTs have been extensively studied by different disciplines. This research borrows from: • Social science and positive psychology perspectives, where the act of becoming aware has been associated with an inner value system that guides behaviour. Theoretical perspective from many authors from various backgrounds in AbMT research have been reviewed to propose a model of inner values which could affect teamwork during DfSI project as well as be influenced positively by the practice of AbMT intervention. • A physiological perspective, to measure Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as an indicator of the physical stress which is known to e reduced by AbMT due to an improve ability to deal with such stress. • A psychological perspective, using the Mindful attention and awareness scale (MAAS) questionnaire for quantitative research on the practice of AbMT intervention by participants. Taking a post-positivist stance, this research focuses on creating a depth of information utilising these inter-disciplinary methods. Therefore, three teams working on three similar social innovation projects have been studied for eight weeks- one team populated with all meditators, another with all non-meditators and a third team with both. Analysis of reflections by team members on their own teamwork led to conclusion that- AbMT intervention could lead to improved teamwork during a DfSI project, especially with regard to the responsibilities perceived as the leadership of the team. This is because the meditators in this research reflected that, because of AbMT intervention they could • share responsibilities which they perceived as pertaining to leadership of their team not only with other members of their team but also with the wider community of stakeholders, • prioritise reflective action over unproductive debates for the better functioning of the team rather than satisfaction of own ego and • change their perception from ‘goal oriented’ to ‘people oriented’ approach. Further it was observed that, teams with meditators could use ‘framing’ and ‘reflecting’ activities to work in multi-disciplinary setting of their team and utilise strength of knowledge of their team. It was also observed that teams with meditators got overly focused on social innovation aspects while working with the community of stakeholders and users, and the team temporarily lost focus of financial viability until the client (sponsor) helped the team to regain their focus. However, the relationship between such findings and the effect of AbMT intervention could not be conclusively asserted, though the intervention is one of the key influences on the teams during their DfSI projects. Thus, the key contributions to knowledge from this research are: the model of inner values, the development of the inter-disciplinary hybrid research methodology and evidence of the positive influences that AbMT intervention can have on the teamwork during DfSI projects.

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Bala, Saimir, Kate Revoredo, Joao Carlos de A. R. Goncalves, Fernanda Baiao, Jan Mendling, and Flavia Santoro. "Uncovering the Hidden Co-Evolution in the Work History of Software Projects." Springer, Cham, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65000-5_10.

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The monitoring of project-oriented business processes is difficult because their state is fragmented and represented by the progress of different documents and artifacts being worked on. This observation holds in particular for software development projects in which various developers work on different parts of the software concurrently. Prior contributions in this area have proposed a plethora of techniques to analyze and visualize the current state of the software artifact as a product. It is surprising that these techniques are missing to provide insights into what types of work are conducted at different stages of the project and how they are dependent upon another. In this paper, we address this research gap and present a technique for mining the software process including dependencies between artifacts. Our evaluation of various open-source projects demonstrates the applicability of our technique.

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Gaioshko, Dariia, and Irina Armasheva. "Impact of individual virtual competence on work outcomes in virtual IT projects." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-144329.

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As the world becomes more globalized and information technology develops more rapidly, companies are increasingly exploring the benefits of using virtual teams to work on projects that allow them to achieve their objectives. This phenomenon though keeps raising questions regarding the best practices in selection and management of employees whose work would be mostly conducted in virtual settings instead of traditional co-located teams. We have investigated the conditions of virtuality, identifying its benefits and challenges and came up to a conclusion that in order to be an effective virtual team member, a special set of skills and abilities may be needed. The central question of this study is: What individual knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that comprise virtual competence (IVC) should the virtual project team members possess, which could contribute to overcoming challenges of the virtual environment? To answer this question a variety of theories on a virtual team, professional competencies, team management and project management were examined. Quantitative research has been utilized to measure the relationship between the conceptualised construct of individual virtual competence and individual work outcomes in a project that is conducted by distributed global teams. Data on the skills of the individuals conducting their work in virtual IT project settings were collected with an online survey which was distributed among the chosen sample. The results of the survey indicated that the most important characteristics that contribute to overcoming challenges of virtuality are self-efficacy, social, and media skills, which also have a positive reflection on the individual work performance and job satisfaction. There are also interesting results regarding the effect of demographic characteristics on variables when compared with the results from the similar study conducted with a different group of respondents. In the end, a revised model of individual virtual competence is proposed that can shed some light on its impact on job performance and job satisfaction of an individual working in virtual project teams.

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Chapano, Munodani. "The impact of high performance work practices on project performance in selected construction companies in Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2532.

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Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of four High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) on project performance in selected construction companies in Cape Town, South Africa. The four HPWPs comprised: recruitment and selection (RS); performance appraisal (PA); training and development (TD); and compensation system (CS). The study employed a positivist philosophy utilizing the survey method to collect data from 70 employees who were drawn from a select group of multi-project construction companies in Cape Town, South Africa. The respondents comprised employees who worked as project team members and line staff/ administrative staff. Non-probability sampling procedure in the form of convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of five (5) construction organisations in Cape Town, South Africa. Probability sampling procedure in the form of stratified sampling technique was employed in the selection of the respondents to complete the questionnaire.Collected data was captured and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. The main research question of the study was: What is the relationship between the four HPWPs and project performance? The results indicate that CS has a weak positive relationship with project performance, whereas TD, PA and RS have weak negative relationships with project performance. It also emerged that there are other factors that significantly affect project performance other than the HPWPs investigated.The results of this study are significant because they provide a unique view of the work environment that has been insufficiently examined. Also, very few studies have focused on the above four universal HPWPs, which this study was earmarked for. The results that are obtained from this study significantly add to the overall body of knowledge pertaining to theories and their application in HRM, project performance and multi-project environments issues.

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Taylor, Teresa Brooks. "TNCC Service-Learning Faculty Champions Panel on Innovative Service-Learning Projects That Work." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3635.

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Van, Rossenberg Yvonne. "Multiple foci of commitment and creative work behaviour in inter-organisational innovation projects." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681031.

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Creative ideas are valued increasingly in all kinds of organisations. Searching to facilitate creative processes, organisations recognise that the source of new ideas and information lies in the interaction between different functional departments, as well as in the cooperation with external actors. For this reason organisations engage in collaborative innovation projects. These inter-organisational or networked employment structures provide a setting in which employees interact with a multitude of entities. In this context, employees can be expected to develop commitment to multiple foci, such as the organisation, the profession and the client. Employee attitudes, especially their level of commitment, are likely to be central to their willingness to engage in activities which are vital to the creative process. Employing a field theoretic lens, this thesis seeks to examine employees’ affective commitment to seven foci: the project, the organisation, the profession, the client, the lead project manager, the career and the job. The emphasis lies on the examination of the interactions between these foci of commitment in their influence on employees’ creative work behaviour. The thesis offers the integration of previous research into a new concept central to the management of creativity in the workplace. Creative Work Behaviour (CWB) is conceptualised on the basis of four phases of the creative process (1) problem identification, (2) information search, (3) idea generation, and (4) idea evaluation. In addition, in this thesis two types of creative work behaviour are recognised: incremental and radical, which are contrasted with routine in-role behaviour. Thereby, the concept of creative work behaviour is advanced, both theoretically as well as empirically, by the test of the survey measure of the concept showing reliability and validity across a wide variety of participants in innovation projects. This thesis relies on individual data from 450 Inter-organisational Innovation Projects (IIPs) funded by the UK government. The data is analysed using both variable centred and person-centred types of analysis. Fitting the data into a series of latent regression, structural equation, and latent mixture models, the analyses provide comprehensive insight into the interactions between the multiple foci of commitment in their effect on creative work behaviour. Analysis of the data showed employees to distinguish between the seven foci of commitment in the IIP context. The results showed the effects of commitment to differ in strength between the types as well as the phases of CWB. Direct effects were strongest for commitment to the project on routine behaviour, commitment to the job on the generation of incremental creative ideas, and commitment to the profession on the evaluation of radical creative ideas. Commitment to the leader had a weak effect on employee behaviour, specifically for radical CWB. Commitment to the profession had an overall strong effect, except for information searching and encoding. Commitment to the project was found to be the key mediator in the effect between multiple foci of commitment on both routine and incremental CWB. For incremental CWB the mediation model was a poorer representation of the variance in the data; moreover the models must allow direct effects of commitment to the job on the generation of incremental creative ideas. For radical creative behaviour commitment to the job was found to be the best fitting mediator between commitment, representing the variance in the data equally as well as the full direct effects model. Latent Profile / Mixture Analysis enables additional insight into the combinations of foci of commitment (commitment profiles) and their relations to creative work behaviour, as well as underlying motivation and experienced creative support. This thesis is the first to propose and empirically examine the relations between commitment and creativity using a multiple foci approach. The concepts of commitment and creativity are embedded in two different fields of research and, therefore, have rarely been studied together. The results demonstrate multiple foci of commitment to be fundamental to employees in the context of inter-organisational innovation projects, interacting strongly in affecting employee behaviour. The specific context of inter-organisational innovation projects increasingly represents the emergent workplace setting in the current knowledge era. Understanding of the interplay between commitment to multiple targets in inter-organisation innovation projects provides a basis of the management of employee commitments, and, thereby managing employees’ creative behaviour. Creative work behaviours are a vital behavioural outcome in innovation projects, increasingly valued in all kinds of organisations.

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Khan, A. (Asadullah). "Improving Performance of Construction Projects in the UAE:multi cultural and decent work perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2014. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526204802.

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Abstract This thesis investigated the national culture of the construction labourers in a migrant country and empirically found the impact of cultural behavior on the performance of construction projects and labourers while practicing the decent work indicators. The study culminates by helping to form a migration policy by both the sending and the receiving countries of migrants that would economically and socially benefit both the migrant labourer and his family at the individual level. This thesis therefore helps by adding to the theoretical knowledge and also in the successful completion of projects and successful temporary migration. The research involved multi-research methods, starting with the narratives of the construction labourers. The research methodology was further augmented through a case study approach with the participant observation method. The data were coded according to grounded theory into national cultural dimensions. Re-confirmation and cross-checking interviews were also conducted to confirm the correctness of the coding. The qualitative data collected were quantified to give meaning to the data collection through triangulation in data analysis. After introducing national cultures in the construction projects of the UAE, the national culture of the construction labourers within Geert Hofstede’s framework was identified, while observing the decent work practices indicators. This was achieved through narratives, observations and semi-structured interviews. The thesis investigates decent work practices indicators specific to the culture of migrant construction labourers from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese labourers in the UAE. The thesis reveals that the national culture of the migrant construction labourers in the UAE is not the same as that identified by Hofstede some four decades ago. Indian construction labourers revealed high Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI), Pakistani labourers showed high Masculinity (MAS), Bangladeshi labourers revealed low Long Term Orientation (LTO) and Individualism (IND) and Chinese construction labourers showed high IND and LTO. The study suggests that the management of cultural differences could help the successful completion of projects, which could be beneficial for both the migrant sending country and the host country and also for the individual migrant and his family. The study further investigated the difference in decent work practices in the UAE and the national culture (as seen in cultural behavior) of the migrant construction labourers in the UAE. Studying this difference in practice and learning about the cultural behavior of the construction labourers has economic and social implications for construction labourers, migrant receiving and sending countries Tiivistelmä Tässä väitöskirjassa tutkittiin toiseen maahan muuttaneiden rakennustyöntekijöiden kansallista kulttuuria ja todettiin empiirisiä tutkimusmenetelmiä käyttäen, kuinka kulttuurinen käyttäytyminen vaikuttaa rakennushankkeiden toteuttamiseen ja työntekijöiden työsuoritukseen, kun sovelletaan ihmisarvoisen työn indikaattoreita. Maahanmuuttajien lähtö- ja tulomaa voivat käyttää tämän tutkimuksen tuloksia apuna laatiessaan maahanmuuttopolitiikkaa, joka hyödyttäisi taloudellisesti ja yhteiskunnallisesti siirtotyöläistä ja tämän perhettä. Tämä väitöskirja auttaa toisin sanoen lisäämään teoreettista tietämystä ja sujuvaa tilapäistä maahanmuuttoa sekä saattamaan hankkeet onnistuneesti päätökseen. Tutkimuksessa käytettiin useita eri tutkimusmenetelmiä, ja lähtökohtana olivat rakennustyöntekijöiden omat kertomukset. Tutkimusmetodologiaa täydennettiin lisäksi tapaustutkimuksella käyttäen osallistuvan havainnoinnin menetelmää. Tutkimustiedot koodattiin käyttäen grounded theory -lähestymistavan mukaisia kansallisten kulttuurien ulottuvuuksia. Haastatteluille tehtiin lisäksi ristiintarkistus ja ne vahvistettiin uudelleen, jotta voitiin varmistua koodauksen paikkansapitävyydestä. Kerätty kvalitatiivinen aineisto ilmaistiin määrällisenä, jotta kerättyjä tietoja voitiin analysoida triangulaation avulla. Tutkimuksessa esiteltiin aluksi, miten kansalliset kulttuurit liittyvät Yhdistyneiden arabiemiirikuntien rakennushankkeisiin, minkä jälkeen määritettiin rakennustyöntekijöiden kansallinen kulttuuri käyttäen Geert Hofsteden teoriaa ja noudattaen ihmisarvoisen työn käytäntöjä koskevia indikaattoreita. Apuna käytettiin kertomuksia, havaintoja ja puolistrukturoituja haastatteluja. Väitöskirjassa tutkittiin rakennustyöntekijöitä, jotka olivat muuttaneet Yhdistyneisiin arabiemiirikuntiin Intiasta, Pakistanista, Bangladeshista ja Kiinasta. Tutkimuksessa todettiin, että ihmisarvoisen työn käytäntöjä koskevat indikaattorit ovat kytköksissä työntekijöiden omaan kulttuuriin. Väitöskirja paljastaa lisäksi, että Yhdistyneisiin arabiemiirikuntiin muuttaneiden rakennustyöntekijöiden kansallinen kulttuuri ei vastaa Hofsteden neljä vuosikymmentä sitten määrittämää kansallista kulttuuria. Intialaisilla rakennustyöntekijöillä havaittiin voimakasta epävarmuuden välttämistä, pakistanilaisilla työntekijöillä voimakasta maskuliinisuutta, bangladeshilaisilla työntekijöillä vähäistä pitkän tähtäimen orientaatiota ja individualismia ja kiinalaisilla rakennustyöntekijöillä puolestaan havaittiin voimakasta individualismia ja pitkän tähtäimen orientaatiota. Tutkimus osoittaa, että kulttuurieroja hallitsemalla voitaisiin edesauttaa hankkeiden viemistä onnistuneesti päätökseen, mikä puolestaan hyödyttäisi maahanmuuttajien lähtömaata ja isäntämaata sekä itse maahanmuuttajia ja heidän perheitään. Tutkimuksessa tutkittiin lisäksi, miten ihmisarvoisen työn käytännöt eroavat Yhdistyneissä arabiemiirikunnissa ja maahan muuttaneiden rakennustyöntekijöiden kansallisessa kulttuurissa (mikä puolestaan ilmenee kulttuurisessa käyttäytymisessä). Tämän eroavaisuuden ja rakennustyöntekijöiden kulttuurisen käyttäytymisen tutkimisella on taloudellisia ja yhteiskunnallisia vaikutuksia rakennustyöntekijöihin sekä maahanmuuttajien lähtö- ja tulomaihin

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Matiwane, Mona Ben. "The communiation and utilisation of recommended agricultural practices in three Mankwe field crop projects." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08012005-114617/.

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Ertem, Mustafa Alp. "Optimal Scope Of Work For International Integrated Systems." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606209/index.pdf.

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This study develops a systems integration project scheduling model which identifies the assignment of activity responsibilities that minimizes expected project implementation cost, considering the project risk. Assignment of resources to the individual jobs comprising the project is a persistent problem in project management. Mostly, skilled labor is an essential resource and both the time and the cost incurred to perform a job depend on the resource to which job is assigned. A systems integration project includes implementation issues in the areas of shipping, installation, and commissioning. Implementation problems lead to project delays, increased costs, and decreased performance, leading to customer dissatisfaction with the systems integrator. Activities can be performed in one of three ways: by the integrator, by the customer, or jointly between the integrator and customer. In this study we select the performer (mode) of each activity comprising the project network while taking into consideration the varying cost, duration and extreme event probability of each activity among different modes-integrator, joint work and customer. Use of the model will permit customers and integrators to mutually agree on an appropriate assignment of responsibilities in the contract. Systems integrators can also use the model to improve their implementation services offerings. An experimental design and a Monte-Carlo simulation study were conducted to see the effects of the parameters of the problem on the selection of modes.

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Rayment, Juliet. "Midwives’ emotion and body work in two hospital settings : personal strategies and professional projects." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36856/.

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Much has been written in recent years of a ‘crisis’ in the recruitment and retention of midwives in the NHS. The crisis has been attributed variously to burnout, a lack of professional autonomy, a bullying culture, and an ideological conflict between the way in which midwives wish to practise and the way they are required to practise within large bureaucratic institutions, such as NHS Trusts. Negotiating these experiences requires a significant amount of emotional labour by midwives, which they may find intolerable. This thesis explores the strategies NHS midwives deploy in order to continue working in NHS maternity services when many of their colleagues are leaving. It examines the extent to which working in a midwife-led service rather than a consultant-led service helps or hinders midwives’ capacity to manage the emotional and ideological demands of their practice. Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in a consultant unit and an Alongside Midwife-led Unit (AMU) in two NHS Trusts in England. The findings from negotiated interactive observation and in-depth unstructured interviews with eighteen midwives were analysed using inductive ethnographic principles. In order to ameliorate the emotional distress they experienced, the midwives used coping strategies to organise the people and spaces around them. These strategies of organisation and control were part of a personal and professional project which they found almost impossible to articulate because it ran contrary to the ideals of the midwifery discourse. Midwives explained these coping strategies as firstly, necessary in order to deal with institutional constraints and regulations; secondly, out of their control and thirdly, destructive and bad for midwifery. In practice it appeared that the midwives played a role in sustaining these strategies because they formed part of a wider professional project to promote their personal and professional autonomy. These coping strategies were very similar in the Consultant Unit and the Midwifery Unit. A midwife-led service provided the midwives with a space within which to nurture their philosophy of practice. This provided some significant benefits for their emotional wellbeing, but it also polarised them against the neighbouring Delivery Suite. The resulting poor relationships profoundly affected their capacity to provide a service congruent with their professional ideals. This suggests that whilst Alongside Midwife-led Units may attempt to promote a midwifery model of care and a good working environment for midwives, their proximity to consultant-led services compounds the ideological conflict the midwives experience. The strength of their philosophy may have the unintended consequence of silencing open discussion about the negative influence on women of the strategies the midwives use to compensate for ideological conflict and a lack of institutional and professional support.

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Ates, Ozan K. "A Decision Making Framework for Road User Cost Analysis along Freeway Work Zone Projects." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1389345484.

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Oberio, Zennifer Libo-on. "Secondary students' narratives of emotion work while engaging in extended/open science inquiry projects." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16329/.

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There is growing evidence showing the significance of student emotions in influencing student engagement and achievement. However, naturalistic studies that provide insights into contextual factors that engender students’ emotion experiences and how students manage these experiences to promote the achievement of their academic goals have been sparse. This study investigated secondary students’ emotion work (i.e., attempts to change the degree or quality of emotion experiences) within a distinctive learning environment. The forty-four participants (15-17 years old) were high-achieving students in a selective, science specialist school in the Philippines, who were undertaking two-year open school science inquiry projects with links to real-world research. Students’ emotion work narratives (68 written narratives and 57 narrative interviews) were collected over a ten-month period (which included an eight-month field work). Data analysis focused on situations that engendered emotion work and the strategies students used. School artefacts and students’ narratives were examined for ideas about achievement that were transmitted to and apprehended by students (i.e., achievement discourses), and how these discourses were linked to students’ emotion work. Five thematic groups of situations and four families of emotion work strategies were identified. The emotiveness of the situations was heightened by discourses that associated achievement with students’ social identities and extraordinary performances. Students’ emotion work served the instrumental goals of sustaining engagement in school work, managing the impact of problematic relationships with peers and teachers, and maintaining students’ social identities. Students demonstrated agency in how they harnessed for their emotion work the resources and opportunities afforded by their social networks and by the achievement discourses. This research underscores the role of emotion work in students’ effective functioning in a demanding learning environment with high levels of uncertainty. Its findings suggest the need for more research that explores students’ potential to shape their school experiences through emotion work.

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Ramqvist, Therese Ramqvist. "Architectural firm leading the construction process through interdisciplinary teamwork." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-125043.

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Ramqvist, Therese. "Architectural firm leading the construction process through interdisciplinary teamwork." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-124426.

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The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate how architects and project managers can improve their work process within an architecture firm, in order to become more competitive and cost efficient. To fulfil the purpose of the thesis, the research has been based on an interview study that draws upon the challenges the construction industry is currently facing, especially within architecture and project management, which means that firms working in the early phases of a project must do some changes in their work processes to meet those challenges. Hence, the research question has been based on the firm’s ability to improve their work processes in different and new types of projects. The investigation has been based on semi-structured interviews and a literature study of scientific articles and academic literature. The interviews have been made with group managers, a design manager, internal project managers and external project managers from the Swedish architecture firm White AB in Stockholm, which has collaborated with the researcher when writing the master thesis. The interviews has shown difficulties in managing projects for both architects and project managers, and in defining roles and dividing of tasks, which has resulted in the lack of collaboration and communication, design problems, time and budget constraints, client dissatisfaction and cultural barriers within the firm. To handle and prevent these difficulties from occurring the researcher has provided the firm’s steering committee with guidance on how to improve the difficulties with two overall objectives. The objectives were based on the current situation analysis, which in turn was based on interviews and literature study that entailed architects’ increased collaboration with project managers and the definition of the project manager’s role. Hence the following guidelines can be achieved: internal and external marketing, education, experience feedback, common objectives and shared leadership. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur arkitekter och projektledare kan förbättra sina arbetsprocesser, i en arkitektfirma, för att bli mer konkurrenskraftiga och kostnadseffektiva. För att uppfylla syftet av examensarbetet, har forskningen varit baserad på en intervjustudie som bygger på de utmaningar som byggbranschen för närvarande står inför, särskilt inom arkitektur och projektledning, vilket innebär att företag som arbetar i de tidiga faserna av ett projekt måste göra vissa förändringar i sina arbetsprocesser för att möta dessa utmaningar. Därför har forskningsfrågan varit baserad på företagets förmåga att förbättra sina arbetsprocesser i olika och nya typer av projekt. Undersökningen har baserats på semistrukturerade intervjuer och en litteraturstudie av vetenskapliga artiklar och akademisk litteratur. Intervjuerna har gjorts med gruppchefer, en projekteringsledare, interna och externa projektledare från den svenska arkitektfirman White AB i Stockholm, som har samarbetat med forskaren vid skrivning av examensarbetet. Intervjuerna har visat på svårigheter i att hantera projekt för både arkitekter och projektledare och I att definiera roller och uppdelning av arbetsuppgifter, vilket har resulterat i samarbets- och kommunikationsbrister, utformningsproblem, tid- och budgetbegränsningar, klientmissnöje och kulturella barriärer inom företaget. Att hantera och förebygga dessa svårigheter från att uppstå så har forskaren tillhandahållit företagets styrgrupp med vägledning om hur svårigheterna kan förbättras utifrån två övergripande mål. Målen baserades på nulägesanalysen, vilket i sin tur grundade sig på intervjuer och litteraturstudier som innebar ett ökat samarbete mellan arkitekter och projektledare och att definiera projektledarens roll. Därmed kan följande riktlinjer uppnås: intern och extern marknadsföring, utbildning, erfarenhetsåterföring, gemensamma mål och delat ledarskap.

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Jansson, Eleonora, and Oskar Remnert. "“Real men are equal partners” : Construction of masculinity in two HIV-preventive projects in Uganda." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1099.

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Mulley, Susan J. "The more the merrier?, pedagogical considerations for group work and team projects in landscape architecture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0024/MQ33256.pdf.

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Leontescu, Mihai. "ePM: Project Management transposed online : The use of information communication tools to support inter-organizational project work." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12460.

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The purpose of this bachelor paper is to analyze the different technologies used for supporting inter-organizational project work and how these technologies influence the project’s overall success. The results of this research have proved that the main impact ePM tools (e-Project Management tools) have upon inter-organizational projects are in terms of time-savings and easiness of communication when in need for communicating abroad with different business partners. Various types of collaboration tools can help the communication process between organizations and provide the project participants with the means of creating and supporting a collaborative environment. Other perceived benefits of ePM tools have been resulted including: reduce project costs due to time-savings and quality of information which lowers the risks for deficiency occurrences; improve the decision-making process; improve internal and external communication; facilitate knowledge sharing and expertise exchange; and create an agile business environment characterized by innovation, flexibility, faster market reaction and ability to work efficiently. Global time zones and communication skills are challenges to creating an efficient collaborative inter-organizational environment.

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Kojadinovic, Ivica, and Löf Marcus Björk. "Possible utilization of BIM in the production phase of construction projects : BIM in work preparations at Skanska Sweden AB." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98232.

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Construction organizations have had to increase their productivity and make the project process, from conceptual design to handing over, more efficient in order to increase their profit margins. The Information Technology (IT) industry has developed new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions and tools which aim to support construction organizations in projects in order for them to achieve their goals of reduced project costs, increased project control and increased productivity. An ICT tool that, during recent years, has grown to potentially create a new paradigm within the construction industry is Building Information Modeling (BIM). But as the construction industry has shown it cannot absorb new technological innovations as fast as the market responds, the entire industry has hereby been perceived as conservative and slow in adoption of BIM throughout the whole project lifecycle. An interesting contradiction is why there has been such slow adoption of BIM when improved productivity and effectiveness is a prerequisite for increased profit margins. The evaluation of this contradiction formed the basis for this thesis. In compliance with the construction company Skanska Sweden AB, for which this research has been conducted, a decision was made to evaluate this problem with focus on how BIM can be used in the production phase of construction projects and how it can be aligned to production processes to increase productivity. A specific production process, work preparations, was chosen to be evaluated as an example of what obstacles there are of implementing BIM and how BIM can be of value in the production phase. To answer this questions a literature study in combination with empirical observations through qualitative interviews was performed. The literature study was conducted in the areas of communication, ICT and BIM. The qualitative study consisted of interviews with personnel from the central organization of Skanska and with production personnel from four different projects. The findings revealed that there are several obstacles with implementing BIM in the production phase and that an organizational induced iterative improvement process is imperative to assure effective BIM diffusion and hence an increased BIM maturity level in the production environment. Furthermore, the research shows that the BIM maturity level will set the standard for how well BIM can be used as a tool to support production processes. Moreover, our research has resulted in a three-step model which provides recommendations how Skanska and other construction organizations gradually can increase their BIM maturity level in the production phase and thereby utilize BIM in production processes such as work preparations.

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Allford, Rosemary Wilson. "Learning to work together : the challenge of collaborative arrangements for strategic projects within HE in Scotland." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2017. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/976294.

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Government policy for economic development across Scotland and the UK is driving an increasing number of strategic alliances in higher education to achieve economies of scale and economies of experience. Higher education institutions have been encouraged through strategic funding to further develop externally facing university-business engagement. Effective collaboration could theoretically produce the advantage of a better student experience and, at the same time, make the market for higher education more competitive. Collaborative structures are complex including the interaction between the people or agents who work within and between them. The challenge is how such collaboration can best be organised to deliver across organisation boundaries. The purpose of the study was to explore and report on a causal story of collaborative practice by examining the insider perspectives of the people engaged in collaborative strategic projects in higher education. Collaboration is defined as a relationship which is mutually beneficial to organisations to achieve common aims, including the structure, roles and relationships within collaborations. The study considered one such strategic project, the Scottish HE Employability Forum,in particular, the lived experience of the members of its project management group and was informed by the evidence based literature. The interpretivist qualitative approach to the study, with semi-structured interviews, represented one specific time interval of the participant voice considering the set-up, implementation and evaluation of the strategic project. The data analysis and findings confirmed a priori themes, for example, the need for trust building, effective leadership and strategic planning. A principle emergent theme was that the notions of agency and reciprocity were not mutually exclusive and impacted on the causal mechanisms and explanation of observed behaviours and relationships of the participant members. A conceptual framework from the current study is presented suggesting themes of collaborative activity being comprised of a broader pattern requiring relational behaviour, expert and champion roles for successful collaboration. A series of recommendations is given for collaborative practice; for project management, effectiveness and sustainability along with key messages of knowledge transfer and learning.

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Eichler, Martina. "Knowledge Management in Product Development Projects in Developing Countries - A Case Study." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-246327.

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The purpose of this master thesis is to contribute to the reduction of knowledge loss and reinvention inside and between organizations pursuing product development projects in developing countries to ensure growth and improved living standards. Investigation and to determination of existing knowledge sharing and knowledge storing practices in several stakeholders of a product development project in Quelimane, Mozambique will be studied. The involved stakeholders are non-profit and governmental organizations and a group of university students. The product development project involved the design and implementation of an anaerobic digester during the spring of 2018. Collaborations between some of the stakeholders started in 2015 and will exceed the project duration. Mixed research methods were used, and open-ended question interviews were conducted for the qualitative data collection. The data was analyzed by coding to find common patterns and relationships. A literature review and desk research were made to obtain detailed information about knowledge management and other related subjects. Results showed that all organizations involved in the product development process experienced at least one barrier to knowledge transfer related to their position as a nonprofit organization pursuing product development in a developing country. The definition of a knowledge management strategy is as important for non-profit organizations as it is for for-profit organizations, but the current methods for choosing a strategy need to be modified in order to fit the overall strategy of such organizations. The implementation of a knowledge management strategy and suitable knowledge management methods and activities could contribute to the reduction of knowledge loss and reinvention inside and between organizations pursuing product development projects in developing countries to ensure growth and improved living standards. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att bidra till en minska kunskapsförlust och återskapandet av tekniska lösningar inom och mellan organisationer som bedriver produktutvecklingsprojekt i utvecklingsländer för att säkerställa tillväxt och förbättrad levnadsstandard. En undersökning av befintlig kunskapsdelning och kunskapshantering hos flera aktörer i ett produktutvecklingsprojekt i Quelimane, Moçambique utfördes. De involverade aktörerna är ideella och statliga organisationer och en grupp universitetsstudenter. Produktutvecklingsprojektet involverade design och implementering av en anaerob rötkammare under våren 2018. Samarbetet mellan några av aktörerna startades 2015 och kommer att fortsätta efter projektets slutförande. Blandade forskningsmetoder användes och intervjuer med öppna frågor genomfördes för den kvalitativa datainsamlingen. Data analyserades genom kodning för att hitta gemensamma faktorer och relationer. En litteraturundersökning och skrivbordsarbete genomfördes för att få detaljerad information om kunskapshantering och andra relaterade ämnen. Resultaten visade att alla organisationer som deltog i produktutvecklingsprocessen upplevde minst ett hinder för kunskapsöverföring i samband med deras ställning som en ideell organisation som bedriver produktutveckling i ett utvecklingsland. Definitionen av en strategi för kunskapshantering är lika viktig för ideella organisationer som för vinstdrivande organisationer, men nuvarande metoder för att välja en strategi behöver ändras för att passa den övergripande strategin för sådana organisationer. En definiering av en kunskapshanteringsstrategi och lämpliga kunskapsförvaltningsmetoder och aktiviteter kan bidra till minska kunskapsförlust och återskapandet av tekniska lösningar inom och mellan organisationer som bedriver produktutvecklingsprojekt i utvecklingsländer för att säkerställa tillväxt och förbättrad levnadsstandard.

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Van, Buren Paul E. "A comparative study of qualifications and motivations of US agricultural scientists accessed by aid for overseas work in 1981 /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487264603217529.

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Fu, Huijuan, and 傅惠鵑. "Using Wiki technology for primary-school students' collaborative projects : affordances, constraints and evaluation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/202372.

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The project-based collaboration setting is becoming increasingly common at different educational levels. Recent years have witnessed the rising use of wikis as computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. However, reports on the application of wiki technology in facilitating collaborative projects at the primary level are few; in particular, information on the affordances and constraints of wikis at this learning stage is limited. Such information is essential for educators when planning and implementing wikis as an effective educational tool. This study aimed to introduce wiki technology to facilitate collaborative project-based learning (Collaborative PjBL) in a primary “General Studies” (GS) course and to explore the associated affordances and constraints. A total of 388 Hong Kong Primary-five (P5) students from 4 local Chinese primary schools used a wiki for their social science group project during their GS course. Adopting a mixed-method approach, a combination of qualitative and quantitative data were collected, including focus group interviews, students’ activities within the wiki platform, students’ reflections written on the wiki pages, and a questionnaire. These data were used to explore the affordances and constraints of the wiki for collaborative projects as perceived by the primary-school students, and to gain an understanding of students’ attitudes towards and perceptions of the wiki in general. The findings showed that the wiki provided five kinds of educational affordances, six kinds of technological affordances, and two kinds of social affordances. The affordances that were aimed for the collaborative PjBL task were therefore achieved. At the same time, constraints were found to be related to technological factors and users’ dispositions. To counterbalance constraints, teachers could select wiki variants and provide more scaffolding on the use of wiki during the process of project completion. Students’ attitudes and perceptions towards the wiki were found to be strongly positive after the group project implementation. The research contributes to our understanding of the use of a form of social media, wiki technology, in primary education. On a theoretical level, it deepens previous research by identifying the categories of the wiki’s affordances and constraints for primary-school students’ collaborative PjBL. On a practical level, the pedagogical implications derived from this study may provide guidelines for primary-school educators to plan collaborative PjBL activities with wiki technology. published_or_final_version Education Master Master of Philosophy

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Griebling, Susan Joan Ubbing. "Designs for Making a Tree: An Ethnographic Study of Young Children's Work in the Visual Arts." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1241802700.

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Mollo, Lesiba George. "Concrete work decision analysis in Bloemfontein." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19190.

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The purpose of this study was to evolve how to reduce the manifestation of poor decisions that always produce defects and rework. The purpose of the study is predicated on the fact that good decision-making is a fundamental element of improved project delivery in the construction industry. Such decisions determine the accomplishment of performance parameters in each project. However, suboptimal performance, which is pervasive in the construction industry, is often linked to team decisions. To remedy decision-making pitfalls, the concept of Choosing by Advantages (CBA) is promoted by lean construction researchers. CBA is a decision-making system that assists project parties in deciding a course of action among competing alternatives. Case study research design was used for this project to discover the decision-making process adopted by project teams. The results from the study achieved through cross-case analysis shows that concrete defects and rework is often caused by the project team’s decision-making process, which is influenced by the members of the project team because of lack of experience, poor working conditions, and lack of education. The results also show that the decision-making mechanism of the project teams is influenced by the construction method, specification, cost, quality and time. The outcome of the project team’s decision-making process when choosing a concrete type often causes the concrete defects and rework, which can be eliminated through the application of CBA when choosing a concrete type. The application of CBA when choosing concrete type from two alternatives, ready mixed concrete and site batched concrete is driven by the project team. It was discovered from all three cases that ready-mixed concrete had a better score than site-batched concrete when using CBA to compare these two alternatives. The results show that ready-mixed concrete had less chances of causing concrete defects and rework when used or applied per the correct specifications or methods which are detailed in the engineering drawings of the structure. The study proposes that the project team should adopt CBA to improve their decision-making process on site especially when working with concrete.

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Roux, Michéle. "Exploring the perceptions of Church of England in South Africa (CESA) pastors : about the nature and extent of social development projects in the Western Cape region." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3815.

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Reading, Jessica. "Initiating and sustaining social projects in a college environment." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240930356.

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Roberts, Emma Jayne. "The customisation of working patterns : the impact and limitation of agency in the work-care projects of employees." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540199.

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Espíndola, Ana Cristina. "O USO DE PROJETOS EXPERIMENTAIS PARA O ENSINO E A APRENDIZAGEM DE FÍSICA NA ESCOLA MÉDIA." Universidade Franciscana, 2008. http://tede.universidadefranciscana.edu.br:8080/handle/UFN-BDTD/104.

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Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-27T19:13:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Ana_Cristina_Espindola.pdf.jpg: 3651 bytes, checksum: 9313b19360788b9e8698e53e5d32145b (MD5) Ana_Cristina_Espindola.pdf: 1255996 bytes, checksum: 78492dd0f9f4f938bb7a095c01782101 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-30 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior In a perspective of education aimed at human development, a methodology based on educational projects brings important implications for the teaching work at school which it is favorable to transformative changes in the modes of teaching and learning, in agreement with the needs and new ways of life, social relations and of working relationships of our time. This study concerns the implementation and analysis of how a proposal for teaching and learning based on experimental projects can motivate students of high school to learn the contents of Physics, as well as to help in constructing other important learning to human development. The proposal was implemented with 181 students of the first and second year of high school of the Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Thomás Fortes, Santiago, RS, using work by experimental projects. As data collection instruments, written entries (activity books and questionnaires) of the students and the teacher were used. The results analyses were done by using the content analysis method. In general, it was observed that the students had a good receptivity to this type of approach, because they realized actors of their own learning. However, it is evident that to achieve this, we need a different posture of both the teacher as the student, and the attitude of the first influences in the development of the attitude of the second. In this work, it was observed that the students indicated they have an interest and responsible attitude regarding the construction of their own knowledge. As a result of the implementation of the proposal, it was produced a digital media in the video format to give visibility of the educational process with the experimental projects. Em uma perspectiva de educação que visa o desenvolvimento humano, uma metodologia pedagógica baseada em projetos traz importantes implicações para o trabalho docente na escola em favor a mudanças transformadoras nos modos de ensinar e de aprender, em consonância com as necessidades e os novos modos de vida, de relações sociais e de relações de trabalho da nossa época. O presente estudo diz respeito à aplicação e a análise de como uma proposta de ensino e aprendizagem baseada em projetos experimentais pode motivar a aprendizagem de conteúdos de Física por alunos do ensino médio, bem como auxiliar na construção de outras aprendizagens importantes ao desenvolvimento humano. A proposta foi aplicada com 181 alunos do primeiro e segundo anos do ensino médio da Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Thomás Fortes, Santiago, RS, usando uma abordagem de trabalho por projetos experimentais. Como instrumentos de coleta de dados, utilizaram-se registros escritos (diários de campo e questionários) dos alunos e do professor. Os resultados obtidos foram analisados por meio do método de análise de conteúdo. De maneira geral, observou-se que os alunos tiveram uma boa receptividade a esse tipo de abordagem, pois se perceberam atores de suas próprias aprendizagens. Contudo, ressaltase que para que isso aconteça, há necessidade de uma postura diferenciada tanto do professor quanto do aluno, sendo que a atitude do primeiro influenciará no desenvolvimento da atitude do segundo. Neste trabalho, observou-se que os alunos indicaram ter uma postura interessada e responsável em relação à construção de seus próprios conhecimentos. Como um dos resultados da aplicação da proposta, produziu-se uma mídia digital no formato de vídeo para dar visibilidade ao processo educacional envolvendo os projetos experimentais.

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Bischof, Janine Chere. "Thais Taking Turns: How Thais Participate in Group Work in the American Classroom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278857/.

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Using Ethnography of Communication, Conversational Analysis, and surveys, Thai students' participation in group work was studied to determine how they interact with native English-speaking students. Issues discussed are: (1) behaviors Thai students display during group work; including comparisons and contrasts to native students' behaviors, (2) prejudices native students have about including Thai students in group work, (3) Thais' strengths and weaknesses in group work, and (4) perceptions native and Thai students and their professors have regarding group work and its importance to successful course completion. The study concludes by recommending ways that both Thai students and their professors can enhance the learning outcomes of courses that heavily emphasize group work.

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Hansen, Christina. "Learning for Development: Constructing Inclusive Work Relations in a Nature Conservation Project in Dondo, Mozambique." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23232.

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Utvecklingsprojekt förutsätter konstruerade målgrupper – ”de fattiga”, ”de under-utvecklade”, ”analfabeter” – som man ämnar ”hjälpa”, ”utveckla” eller ”utbilda”. Vad som definieras vara ”problemen” baseras på kunskap som härrör från samma källa som idéerna till utvecklingsinsatser. Detta riskerar att ignorera lokalkännedom. Denna uppsats visar, genom analys av ett fall på mikronivå, att projektmål som syftar till att främja utveckling inte alltid lyckas.Denna studie är baserad på etnografiskt material hämtat från ett bostadsområde i Dondo, en landsortsbygd i centrala Moçambique, genom fältarbete. Studien utforskar hur en utvecklingsdiskurs och praxis införs i en lokal ort, hur detta påverkar människorna, samt hur de används och förändras.Mötet mellan utomstående och lokalboende i ekonomiska och materiella ojämlika förhållanden, och arbetsrelationerna mellan ledare och personer med lägre social status, kännetecknas av ömsesidiga fördomar och stereotypa bilder av ”den andre”. I Dondo har historiskt och kulturellt normaliserade sociala relationer kommit att marginalisera ekonomiskt mindre gynnade invånare. Uppdelningen mellan insiders och outsiders legitimerar och upprätthåller marginaliseringen av lokal kunskap och exkluderingen av lokala invånares deltagande. Samtidigt finns det en brist på tilltro till utomståendes expertis bland lokalboende, som hindrar erkännande av ”yttre” kunskap som kan bidra till lokal utveckling.Dessa faktorer hindrar skapandet av inkluderande arbetsrelationer, det vill säga ett ge-och-ta-förhållande där båda parter lär och drar nytta av varandras erfarenheter och kunskap. Denna uppsats hävdar därför att ömsesidigt lärande är en förutsättning för utveckling. En viss typ av ledarskap kan möjliggöra utveckling om den tillämpas i syfte att utmana befintliga ojämlika maktförhållanden och diskursivt konstruerade bilder av sig själv och andra som cirkulerar i utvecklingssammanhang. Development projects often conceptualize target groups that are identified as – ‘the poor’, ‘the underdeveloped’, ‘the illiterate’ – with the aim to ‘help’, ‘develop’ or ‘educate’ them. The definitions of ‘problems’ are based on knowledge deriving from the same source as the ideas of development interventions, and therefore may ignore local knowledge. By analyzing one micro-level case this thesis suggests that projects aiming to promote development may in fact fail to accomplish their goals.This study is based on ethnographic material collected through fieldwork in one local neighbourhood of Dondo, which is a rural town in central Mozambique. It explores how development discourse and practice are introduced in a local setting, how they operate, and the way in which they are transformed and utilized.The encounters between outsiders and insiders in conditions of economic and material inequality, and the work relations between superiors and socially less privileged people, are characterized by reciprocal preconceptions and stereotyped images of ‘the Other’. In Dondo historically and culturally normalized social relations have come to marginalize economically less advantaged residents. The divisions between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ may legitimize and maintain the marginalization of local knowledge, as well as local people’s participation. At the same time, a lack of trust towards outsiders’ expertise exists amongst insiders, which impedes recognition of ‘outer’ knowledge that could contribute to local development.These factors obstruct the creation of inclusive work relations; a give-and-take relationship in which both sides learn and benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge. Therefore, this thesis argues for mutual learning as a precondition for development. Certain leadership approaches may enable development, if it is practiced with the aim to challenge existing power inequalities and discursively created images of self and others that operate within development contexts.

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Håkansson, Amelie, and Fleur Josefin la. "Från norr till söder : En kvalitativ studie om projektdeltagares upplevelser av utbytet vid ett internationellt projekt." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75346.

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The aim of this study was to understand how project participants in a project between a Western country and an Africa country experience the exchange of knowledge and experiences. The study was conducted through qualitative semi-structured interviews with a hermeneutic approach. We interviewed nine participants from the project Tlokwe Inclusivity Disability Sector II, an international project between Växjö in Sweden and Potchefstroom in South Africa. Four of the interviews were conducted with participants from South Africa, and five of the interviews were conducted with participants from Sweden. The analysis of the material was based on previous research in the field and the theories of postcolonialism and indigenization. The result of the study shows that the participants from South Africa have received knowledge from Sweden that they have tried to adjust to their local conditions. The Swedish participants also feel that they have learned from this project, but a different kind of knowledge than the theoretical knowledge that they have conveyed to the South African participants. Cultural differences were central in all interviews, but although all participants that we have interviewed talked about these differences, it was not seen as a problem in the project.

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Dai, Xinghang. "Cooperative knowledge discovery from cooperative activity : application on design projects." Thesis, Troyes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TROY0020/document.

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Les projets de conception deviennent de plus en plus complexes et multidisciplinaires en termes d’organisation. Ces projets sont menés actuellement d’une manière collaborative. La connaissance coopérative (liée à la négociation et à l’organisation) produite dans ce type de projets est généralement perdue. Par ailleurs, la gestion des connaissances permet à une entreprise de réutiliser l’expérience afin d’améliorer l’apprentissage organisationnel. Plusieurs méthodologies sont définies pour recueillir les connaissances métier. Cependant, ces approches présentent des limites pour recueillir et modéliser les connaissances coopératives. Un acteur ne peut pas expliquer globalement l’activité coopérative sans préjugé. Comment réutiliser la connaissance coopérative des projets de conception devient un défi en gestion de connaissances. Dans ma thèse « Découverte des connaissances coopératives à partir des activités coopératives : application sur les projets de conception », le terme « «découverte des connaissances » est redéfinit selon la méthodologie de l’ingénierie des connaissances et la gestion des connaissances. La nature de la connaissance coopérative est étudiée, ensuite une nouvelle approche de classification est proposée afin de découvrir la connaissance coopérative dans les activités coopératives. Cette approche est également élaborée dans le contexte de projet de conception. Des tests sur des projets en ingénierie de logiciel, en éco-conception et en conception mécanique sont réalisés Modern design projects tend to be more and more complex and multi-disciplinary in terms of both organization and process. Knowledge management enables a company to reuse its experience in order to improve organizational learning. Several knowledge engineering methods are defined to obtain expert knowledge. However, no knowledge approaches have succeeded to extract cooperative knowledge due to its particular features: cooperative knowledge is produced in cooperative activities; no single actor can claim to explain globally the cooperative activity with no personal bias. How can we reuse cooperative design project knowledge is the new challenge. In my thesis “knowledge discovery from cooperative activities, application on design projects”, the term “knowledge discovery” is redefined according to knowledge engineering approaches, and guided by the spirit of knowledge management. The nature of cooperative knowledge is studied and a novel approach of classification is proposed to discover knowledge from cooperative activities, and it is further elaborated in the context of design projects, examples on software engineering, eco-design and mechanical design are demonstrated

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Sajjad, Umar, and Muhammad Qaisar Hanif. "Issues and Challenges of Requirement Elicitation in Large Web Projects." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3216.

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Requirement elicitation is a critical activity in the requirement development process and it explores the requirements of stakeholders. The success or failure of this process is based on identifying the relevant stakeholders and discovering their needs as well as the quality of requirements. The quality of the requirements is greatly influenced by methods applied during requirements elicitation process. Only complete and structured requirements make these projects more reliable. The common challenges that analysts face during elicitation process are to ensure effective communication between stakeholders as well as the acquisition of tacit knowledge. Mostly errors in the systems are due to poor communication between user and analyst, and these errors require more resources (time and money) to correct them. The understandability problems during elicitation process of large web projects can lead to requirements ambiguous, inconsistent, incorrect and unusable. Different methods (Conversational, Observational, Analytical and Synthetic) are available to deal with the problems during requirement elicitation process. The challenge for analysts is to select an appropriate method or set of methods and apply them for the clear, consistent and correct requirement gathering. This study based on the results of interviews conducted to the professionals, who have industrial experience in development of web systems. The elicitation problems that are identified in literature and interview along with applicability of elicitation methods for requirement gathering in large web projects development are documented in this report. Umar Sajjad Charhoi, Kotli, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan Muhammad Qaisar Hanif Bhimber, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

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Roll, Helena. "Projektledare eller producent? – det är frågan : En studie om projektledarens och producentens roller i en kulturmiljö." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66725.

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Projektformen är vanlig inom kulturområdet där man t.ex. kan räkna varje enskild teater-/operaproduktion eller konsert som projekt. Det finns olika typer av ledarroller som leder dem. Två av dessa roller är projektledare och producent. Skillnaden mellan de här två rollerna är inte alltid tydlig och syftet med den här studien är dels att försöka utröna om det finns någon tydlig generell definition av rollerna inom det studerade området och dels hur personer som arbetar i dessa två yrkesroller upplever sitt arbete. Studien innefattar två olika institutioner inom konstmusik samt en operainstitution och den har genomförts genom kvalitativa intervjuer med projektledare och producenter som arbetar på dessa platser Resultatet visar på att det inte finns någon generell definition av rollerna och att de ser olika ut på olika platser beroende på en rad olika faktorer. Det visar även på att både projektledare och producenter i den här miljön upplever sitt arbete positivt med många bollar i luften och många mänskliga kontakter men också med inslag av stress, frustration och svårigheter att vara ledig. Det är även ett arbete där man gemensamt arbetar mot en fix deadline på gott och ont och där balansgången mellan konst och ekonomi ständigt är närvarande. In the field of performing arts the work is often done in the form of a project. Every single theatre and opera production or concert can be regarded as a project. There are many different roles leading the work in a culture project. Producer and project manager are two of these leading roles. The difference between these two roles is not always clear. The purpose of this study is partly to try to find out whether there is any clear general definition of the two different roles within the field studied and partly to see how both producers and project managers experience their work in this context. One opera and two different music art institutions are having been studied. The study is performed by means of qualitative interviews with project managers and producers working in these institutions. The result shows there is no general definition of the leader roles and that they vary between different institutions depending on several factors. It also shows that both project managers and producers in these institutions have a positive view in the intensity of the work and the many personal contacts. At the same time, they experience stress, frustration and difficulties to relax from work. In these cultural projects you also work towards a mutual fixed dead-line. This can have a positive or negative effect. You always have the balance between art and economy constantly present.

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Bellas, Noel. "Successes and challenges in implementing community art programs for youth in low-income communities : implications for social work practice." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100738.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the successes and challenges in implementing community art programs for youth in low-income communities. The National Arts and Youth Demonstration Project (NAYDP) was initiated in September 2001 in five program sites across Canada. This article reports on the qualitative findings of NAYDP staff implementation journals that were utilized in the first term of the project. Findings suggest that community partnerships in program recruitment, youth management and engagement and survey administration were all key aspects in the ability of staff to deliver the program. Positive Youth Development (PYD) provides a guiding framework and implications for social work practice, education and future research are explored.

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CARVALHO, MONICA MARANHA PAES DE. "SUSTAINABLE OR SOCIAL DESIGN: HOW THE DESIGNERS WHO CARRY OUT PROJECTS OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERIZE THEIR WORK." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20849@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO Este estudo tem como foco principal investigar as relações entre a prática profissional do design e o tema da sustentabilidade. Foi feita uma pesquisa qualitativa com designers que realizam projetos com pequenos grupos produtivos visando sua inclusão social. Uma vez que muitos desses projetos têm sido associados à promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável, buscou-se compreender como os próprios designers que estão envolvidos caracterizam sua área de atuação. Os entrevistados discorreram sobre suas metodologias de trabalho, o relacionamento com as pessoas dos grupos produtivos, dificuldades e facilidades dos projetos e os impactos sociais percebidos. Os depoimentos dos participantes revelaram que a maior parte deles trabalha com grupos de artesãos, mas também foram mencionados outros tipos de grupos, como costureiras, marceneiros, tecelãs etc. A análise das respostas indica que eles utilizam diversas expressões para designar sua área de atuação, como design social, design para sustentabilidade, entre outras. Porém, observou-se que nem todos fazem associação direta entre seu trabalho e a sustentabilidade, apesar de tratarem de questões que são comumente relacionadas ao tema do desenvolvimento sustentável: uso de matérias-primas locais, aproveitamento de refugos industriais, geração de renda, valorização de identidades culturais, melhoria da qualidade de vida e desenvolvimento local. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the correlations between the professional practice of design and the issue of sustainability. We conducted a qualitative research with designers who carry out projects with small productive groups aimed at social inclusion. Since many of these projects have been related to the promotion of sustainable development, we sought to comprehend how the designers themselves characterize their field. The interviewees talked about their methodologies, their relationship with the people in the productive groups, the difficulties and the facilities of the projects, and the perceived social impacts. Their statements revealed that most of them work with artisans, although they have mentioned other kinds of groups, as seamstresses, carpenters, weavers etc. The analysis of their discourse indicates that they use different expressions to describe their area of expertise, such as social design, design for sustainability, among others. Nevertheless we observed that not all of them do direct association between their work and sustainability, despite dealing with matters that are commonly related to the issue of sustainable development: the use of local raw materials, income generation, recovery of cultural identity, improving the quality of life and local development.

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Hammes, Care Cristiane. "Experiência interdisciplinar através de projeto de trabalho no contexto da escola: saberes construídos pelos professores." Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, 2007. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/1918.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T20:01:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 9 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior O objetivo da investigação foi compreender as possibilidades e limites de uma experiência pedagógica com perspectiva interdisciplinar, realizada através de projetos de trabalho, na construção de saberes docentes no âmbito da escola. A experiência foi desenvolvida no Instituto de Educação Ivoti/RS, onde foi realizado um trabalho coletivo de elaboração e de aplicação do projeto intitulado “Missões Jesuíticas”, com a participação de professores e alunos do terceiro ano do Curso Normal, no primeiro semestre do ano de 2006. Na investigação dessa experiência, busquei compreender o papel do conhecimento geográfico na articulação dos conhecimentos de diferentes disciplinas do currículo e as possibilidades de projetos de trabalho realizados em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, na construção de saberes docentes no espaço da escola e em mudanças em suas práticas pedagógicas. No processo de investigação, foram analisados, em uma perspectiva hermenêutica, os e-mails trocados entre os professores na fase do planejamento do The objective of this investigation was to understand the possibilities and limits of a pedagogical experience in an interdisciplinary perspective, accomplished through work projects, in the construction of teacher’s knowledge at a school scope. The experience was developed in the Instituto de Educação Ivoti/RS (Institute of Education of Ivoti/RS), where the collective work of production and application of the project “Missões Jesuíticas” took place, with participation of teachers and senior students from high school, in the first semester of 2006. In the investigation of this experience, my intention was to understand the role of the geographic knowledge linked to the knowledge of different disciplines of the curriculum and the possibilities of work projects that were accomplished in an interdisciplinary perspective, in the construction of teacher’s knowledge in the school environment and in the changes in their pedagogical practices. In the inquiry process, the e-mails exchanged among teachers in the planni

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Melo, Cláudia Vianna de. "Projetos de trabalho na Creche UFF: articulação com a proposta pedagógica e a produção das crianças." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8107.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico A presente dissertação traz os resultados da pesquisa que teve como objetivo investigar a articulação entre os projetos de trabalho, a proposta pedagógica e a produção das crianças na Creche UFF, no espaço físico do Departamento de Educação Infantil do Colégio Universitário Geraldo Reis (COLUNI/UFF), Unidade Universitária de Educação Infantil (UUEI) localizada em Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (RJ). A investigação tomou como material de análise a produção do conhecimento sobre a infância restrita a projetos de trabalho de autoria de docentes, estagiários, bolsistas, pesquisadores em geral, tendo como campo de pesquisa a Creche UFF; os projetos de trabalho desenvolvidos nessa unidade com as crianças de dezoito meses a cinco anos; os registros do caderno de campo produzidos a partir das observações das reuniões pedagógicas. Para consecução da proposta, foram utilizados estudos sobre projetos realizados por autores tais como Fernando Hernández, Montserrat Ventura, Edwards, Gandini e Forman, Maria Carmem Barbosa e Maria da Graça Souza Horn. Para as orientações curriculares, analisaram-se os estudos de Ligia Aquino e Vera Vasconcellos, bem como os principais documentos oficiais para a educação infantil. A pesquisa teve como resultados a constatação de que há articulação entre os projetos de trabalho e a proposta pedagógica, assim como há visibilidade, nos portfólios, das produções das crianças

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Nilsson, Andreas. "Projektledning i praktiken : Observationer av arbete i korta projekt." Doctoral thesis, Umeå, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789172645882.

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